Cutter wrote on Nov 9, 2011, 10:38:I go to put the cpu back in and drop it bending a few pins. Sigh. So careful as hell try to get them straightened up, no joy. So off to the store for a new CPU...$142 later...man that was an expensive cleaning. On the upside though my new CPU is twice as fast as the old one. Went from triple core 2.1 to quad core 3.8.

at first i was a bit confused about the location of the pins then i realized you must be using an AMD cpu. amirite?

Other clue would be he went from a tri-core processor to a quad. Intel doesn't offer a tri-core processor.